In this sequel to Biting the Moon, young amnesiac Andi Oliver is adrift again after the death of the kidnapper who claimed to be her father. Not knowing even her real name—she adopted her name from the initials A.O. on her backpack—she moves from one waitress job to the next across the plains. It is in North Dakota that she is hired at Klavan's, a massive pig farming facility. As animal-loving Andi begins to uncover the truth about Klavan's particularly cruel form of livestock management, two men are on her trail: one has followed her across three states, demanding that she remember something from her past; the other is a gunman hired to kill her.